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With six years of phd work on theropod dinosaurs behind him, Darren Naish mostly spends long hours in the library, hunched over his laptop. But he gets out sometimes, and picks up litter and pursues exotic lizards across the British countryside, aiming all the while to publish his technical work on obscure Cretaceous dinosaurs. He also messes around with pterosaurs, swimming giraffes, British big cats and stuff like that. He has given up on the stupid idea of being a dedicated academic and ekes out a living as a technical consultant, editor and author. He can be contacted intermittently at eotyrannus (at) gmail dot com. For more biographical info go here.
You've read the blog, now buy the books....
The Great Dinosaur Discoveries (US edition)
The Great Dinosaur Discoveries (UK edition)
Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs and Prehistoric Life
Walking With Dinosaurs: The Evidence
Dinosaurs of the Isle of Wight
November 20, 2009
Category: frivolous nonsense
My good friend Luis Rey was kind enough to pass on the following photos, taken at the Jardin Des Plantes in Paris. It's the extinction carousel, (presumably) the only place in the world where you might ride a sivathere......
Posted by Darren Naish at 5:01 AM • 18 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
November 19, 2009
Category: mammalogy
Time only for a picture-of-the-day post... here are portraits of the big animalivorous microbats Otomops (a molossid, of course*), Cheiromeles (also a molossid) and Vampyrum (a phyllostomid). The pic is from Freeman (1984), but you might notice that two of...
Posted by Darren Naish at 4:23 AM • 29 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
November 17, 2009
Category: herpetology
You've probably seen - presumably on TV - Nile crocs Crocodylus niloticus interacting with Common hippos Hippopotamus amphibius (if you've seen it in real life, lucky you). By and large the two seem to keep apart. Having said that, there...
Posted by Darren Naish at 4:21 AM • 27 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
November 16, 2009
Category: mammalogy
By now you might have read my two previous articles (part I, part II) on the assorted tetrapods I encountered in Libya last month. Here's the third and final part in the series [image below shows chital at left, melanistic...
Posted by Darren Naish at 4:57 AM • 22 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
November 11, 2009
Category: speculative zoology
Regular readers will know that I'm not exactly a fan of the idea - discussed here and there in the technical (Russell & Séguin 1982, Russell 1987), popular (Hecht 2007, Socha 2008, Naish 2008) and speculative literature (McLoughlin 1984, Magee...
Posted by Darren Naish at 7:02 AM • 127 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
November 10, 2009
Category: ornithology
After a little delay, I'd like to continue regaling you with, if I may, my assorted musings on my excursion to the Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya. In other words, I want to talk more about Libya......
Posted by Darren Naish at 7:51 AM • 15 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
November 9, 2009
Category: frivolous nonsense
My wife gives money to a cancer charity. She gets literature of some sort for doing this, and here's the front cover of the Christmas booklet she recently received. Why, as a Tet Zoo nerd, do I find it so...
Posted by Darren Naish at 4:30 AM • 47 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
November 5, 2009
Category: cryptozoology
Goddammit, no time for more reports from Libya, or for more in the toads series, or for articles on hairless Spectacled bears or tiny heterodontosaurids or neovenatorids, or anything really. Here's how things are progressing in view of Saturday's event......
Posted by Darren Naish at 8:23 AM • 71 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
November 3, 2009
Category: mammalogy
So, I recently returned from a brief sojourn in Libya. The trip was led by Richard Moody, best known for his work on Cretaceous sea turtles; I was also accompanied by palaeornithologist Gareth Dyke and by a group of people...
Posted by Darren Naish at 6:11 AM • 28 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
